Politics always change. Stories never do.

There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.